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revdorothyl at 08:36pm on 02/11/2005
revdorothyl at 08:36pm on 02/11/2005I'll write more, later, about how that critical kick-in-the-stomach-your-life-is-over situation has been working out (it's not good, but not as bad as I thought, or at least not as bad as I thought it was this past weekend when the second shoe dropped and I really thought I had been thrown out with the trash).
Meanwhile, I'm feeling awfully grateful that there were new episodes of Bones and House last night for me to tape and look forward to watching when I had a breathing space today -- not to mention the new episode of NCIS, which I watched last night and found both adorable (the little boy who was a mini-Gibbs! Gibbs showing off his fatherhood skills! Awwwww!) and ethically alarming (it's okay for NCIS to let an Israeli agent torture a woman into spilling her criminal guts, because it enabled them to save the life of a good American Navy commander/genius who had been tortured for days? What, Gonzalez is writing for Bellisario, now?).
And is it just me, that I'm so desperately in need of a pleasant distraction that almost anything looks good, or were last night's episodes of Bones and House particularly entertaining? I thought the chemistry between the leads on Bones was really coming together in a very amusing way, not to mention the actual subplot with the supporting characters. What FUN!
And darned if I didn't find House's character even more obnoxious and more fascinating than usual last night, plus that really interesting theme of how everybody really does treat everybody else differently, based on their perceptions of them, whether those perceptions have any resemblance to reality or not. And I'm liking the latest evolution in the relationship between House and the ever-more-independent Cameron. (Even if I couldn't help remembering something from Lois McMaster Bujold's Barrayar, where Cordelia reflects on the fact that if she'd wanted a happy life she should have married a happy man, instead of falling for the overwhelming beauty of pain . . . or something like that. I wonder when Cameron's going to realize just how screwed up Chase is inside and begin to like him just a little bit?)
Meanwhile, I'm feeling awfully grateful that there were new episodes of Bones and House last night for me to tape and look forward to watching when I had a breathing space today -- not to mention the new episode of NCIS, which I watched last night and found both adorable (the little boy who was a mini-Gibbs! Gibbs showing off his fatherhood skills! Awwwww!) and ethically alarming (it's okay for NCIS to let an Israeli agent torture a woman into spilling her criminal guts, because it enabled them to save the life of a good American Navy commander/genius who had been tortured for days? What, Gonzalez is writing for Bellisario, now?).
And is it just me, that I'm so desperately in need of a pleasant distraction that almost anything looks good, or were last night's episodes of Bones and House particularly entertaining? I thought the chemistry between the leads on Bones was really coming together in a very amusing way, not to mention the actual subplot with the supporting characters. What FUN!
And darned if I didn't find House's character even more obnoxious and more fascinating than usual last night, plus that really interesting theme of how everybody really does treat everybody else differently, based on their perceptions of them, whether those perceptions have any resemblance to reality or not. And I'm liking the latest evolution in the relationship between House and the ever-more-independent Cameron. (Even if I couldn't help remembering something from Lois McMaster Bujold's Barrayar, where Cordelia reflects on the fact that if she'd wanted a happy life she should have married a happy man, instead of falling for the overwhelming beauty of pain . . . or something like that. I wonder when Cameron's going to realize just how screwed up Chase is inside and begin to like him just a little bit?)
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I don't watch Bones, but I thought House was quite good--we watched it with a friend who hated Doctor Sullivan or Sinclair or whatever his name was just as much as House did, and I sat there contemplating what is it about sincere dedication to a cause that makes the rest of us so guilty and therefore snarly in its presence...
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To a spoiler virgin, like me, pretty much your whole post is full of spoilers, not just the torture thing behind the cut. The kid, the kid being a mini-Gibbs, the theme of House ... to me all spoilers.
Could I please ask you to hide these sorts of revelations behind a cut? Totally up to you, of course.
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And I owe you an apology. I didn't know they were in promos, or I wouldn't have made the comment.
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And House was okay, too, but I couldn't buy Peter from Office Space being a doctor. heh
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As for the TV, I can't comment as yet. Out of the three we only watch House and it's a matter of waiting until it's available for download but I can smile happily in anticipation knowing that it's back on air and should be coming soon.
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I don't watch any of the shows you mention, but I enjoy Bujold of course. And Cordelia manages to carve a pretty happy life out for her screwed up family, doesn't she! (Though I suspect real life would have been unkinder to her than fiction.)
*pats your butt*